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When there is nowhere to live because all the houses are let to visiting tourists, a group of activists decided to turn this situation into a tourist attraction itself.

Galway City Councillor Niall McNelis has welcomed the Government’s new national framework for regulating short-term holiday lets.

The Galway branch of the Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) took action this week to highlight the effect short-term lets are having on the community.

There is something quietly absurd happening in Irish accommodation right now. Across the west of Ireland, residential properties are hosting tourists on Airbnb while hotel beds in regional towns are occupied by long-term residential placements, including emergency and refugee accommodation. Houses built for families are full of visitors. Hotels built for visitors are, in many cases, no longer available to them. We have inverted the entire logic of how accommodation is supposed to work.

It seems tourists have the high ground in Galway while the residents are Anekin Skywalker. In a study by the Galway Advertiser, one-third of shops in the main shopping district are geared towards tourists.

Tá an grúpa feachtais tithíochta BÁNÚ tar éis a rá go bhfuil díomá orthu nach ndearna páirtithe an rialtais mórán teagmhála leo i rith feachtas fhothoghchán Ghaillimh Thiar, a reáchtálfar amárach.

O'Donnellan & Joyce has been instructed with the sale of this exceptional coastal family home, in the picturesque surroundings of Inverin, Co Galway.

Housing has become the clearest example of how life is being made unaffordable for ordinary working people across Galway, according to Mark Lohan, Sinn Féin's candidate in the upcoming Galway West by-election.

The housing crisis is a national emergency brought on by a decade and a half of Government failure and the only way to fix it is to get new leadership, says Sheila Garrity, an independent candidate in this month’s Galway West by-election.

“For all their talk, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Independent Ireland offer more of the same disastrous policies that have led to the housing crisis in Galway and it is long past time for change”, said People Before Profit Galway West candidate Denman Rooke.